{"product_id":"cultural-migrants-from-japan","title":"Cultural Migrants from Japan","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn recent years, a large number of young Japanese have been migrating to New York and London for the purpose of engaging in cultural production in areas such as dance, fashion, DJing, film, and pop arts in the hope of \"making it\" as artists. In the past, this kind of cultural migration was restricted to relatively small, elite groups, such as American artists in Paris in the 1920's, but \u003ci\u003eCultural Migrants from Japan\u003c\/i\u003e looks at the phenomenon of tens of thousands of ordinary, middle-class Japanese youths who are moving to these cities for cultural purposes, and it questions how this shift in cultural migration can be explained.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFollowing Appadurai's theory of the relation between electronic media and mass migration, and using ethnographies of twenty-two young migrants over a five year period, Fujita examines how television, film, and the internet influence this mobility. She challenges emerging orthodoxies in the general discussion of transnationalism, demonstrating the disjunction migrants experience between the pre-existing expectations created by media exposure, and the reality of creating and living as a \"transnational\" artist participating in a global community.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntersecting long-term, multi-sited ethnography with emerging transnational and globalization theory, \u003ci\u003eCultural Migrants from Japan\u003c\/i\u003e is a timely look at the emerging shift in concepts of national identity and migration.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing Plc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54239461802328,"sku":"9780739128916","price":107.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780739128916.jpg?v=1769826639","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/cultural-migrants-from-japan","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}